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Part I: Custom NMEA 2000 2″ Round LCD Multifunction Display Gauge...

MAVROMATIC·Danny Mavromatis·about 1 month ago
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The Backstory I recently purchased a 2013 model year boat and in style of Mavromatic, I wanted to “hack/mod” the onboard electronics ASAP.   The previous owner had installed a Lowrance HDS 7 Gen 3 GPS/Chartplotter and added a NMEA 2000 backbone to use a Lowrance EP- 60R  fuel flow sensor (that I later found was clogged, a simple back-flush blow of compressed air fixed it). After numerous hours of research, I found out the fuel flow sensor was pointless to me given the engine is fairly new and has EFI and an onboard ECU that can provide that data.   The challenge was how do you get the all that data onto the NMEA 2000 network? The answer was to install the Mercury VesselView Link .  Given my boat, while a 2013 model (non-DTS), still had the traditional analog gauges it required I installed a SmartCraft harness that could connect to the VesselView Link.…

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